On Sunday 23 July 2006 14:12, Axel Thimm wrote:
Well, add to the above that the kABI isn't going to give you an
orderable single entry like uname-r does (but maybe noone cares, the
kernel module packaging at least wouldn't), and that no user will
understand the mapping between his kernel, whose uname -r he knows,
and a kABI checksum.
But in principle if one day kABI checksums gain a popularity/visibilty
like uname-r has today on the user's side, then I agree, that uname-r
in the name could be replaced with a kABI checksum. In the kmdl scheme
this would be a rather trivial change.
Perhaps I fail to see the problem. Once you have an ABI to use for requires
and such, can't you use someting more simple in the version or release rather
than a uname-r in the name?
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora